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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Portugal	Romania	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	10,144	22,414	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	10,215	22,262	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	22,106	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	10,344	21,931	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	10,383	21,828	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	10,408	21,704	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	10,427	21,571	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	10,446	21,443	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	10,467	21,129	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	10,482	20,779	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	10,492	20,607	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	10,497	20,485	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	10,481	20,385	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	10,439	20,296	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	10,382	20,224	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	10,326	20,151	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	10,283	20,055	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	10,251	19,938	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	10,226	19,823	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	10,209	19,713	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	10,212	19,622	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	10,223	19,496	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	10,214	19,351	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	10,200	19,266	7,666

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.